裁判官席
1758
William Hogarth takes a sharp, satirical jab at the legal system in this 1758 print, depicting four judges slumped on 'The Bench' under the weight of their own massive, fluffy wigs. They look less like pillars of justice and more like they're nodding off after a heavy lunch! Above them, a row of floating heads illustrates Hogarth's theory on the difference between a true 'character' portrait and a silly 'caricature.' Interestingly, Hogarth added those top heads himself just one day before he died in 1764, proving he was tweaking his art until the very end.
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